{"id":259554,"date":"2026-04-21T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259554\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:08:12","slug":"a-well-site-explosion-triggers-a-large-fire-and-evacuations-in-east-texas-but-no-injuries-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259554\/","title":{"rendered":"A well site explosion triggers a large fire and evacuations in East Texas, but no injuries \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/?attachment_id=549649\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-549649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/NacogdochesCountyExplosion-FB.jpg\" alt=\"Nacogdoches County Explosion\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nacogdoches County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The Nacogdoches County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to an explosion at an industrial site in the Etoile area on the night of April 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>NACOGDOCHES, Texas \u2014 An explosion at a Texas natural gas or oil well site set off a large fire that was seen for miles and led to some evacuations, but caused no injuries, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Nacogdoches County Sheriff\u2019s Office received numerous calls late Monday of a loud explosion in Etoile in eastern Texas, a small, rural community about 140 miles northeast of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said the explosion happened at an oil well site. The city of Nacogdoches, about 20 miles away, described it as a natural gas well, based on information it received from the Texas Department of Public Safety, city spokesperson Kevin Meyer said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were advised to evacuate as a precaution and others were asked to shelter in place. It wasn\u2019t immediately known how many residents were affected.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was still burning early Tuesday, but it was not spreading and was being monitored, Meyer said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is currently no danger to local residents from the fire, and air quality in the area is being monitored as well,&#8221; Meyer said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>A well control emergency response company from Houston was on its way to further suppress the fire, Meyer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nacogdoches County Sheriff&#8217;s Office The Nacogdoches County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to an explosion at an industrial site in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[910,97169,56,58,57,66,2606,11310,223,11531,97321,1225,15867,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-259554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-etoile","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-nacogdoches-county","15":"tag-natural-gas","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-oil-and-gas-industry","18":"tag-oil-well","19":"tag-public-safety","20":"tag-shelter-in-place","21":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}